Soundcloud not working, SSL error thrown

[abdelrahman-elkady]

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.03.15
• At least skimmed through README and most notably FAQ and BUGS sections
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Following #12280 and #12257, the issue still exists on build-2017.03.15, here is the output of the execution with the verbose flag:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://soundcloud.com/user/track']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.03.15
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-4.4.0-66-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.3-6, avprobe 11.3-6, ffmpeg git-2017-01-22-f1214ad, ffprobe git-2017-01-22-f1214ad
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] user/track: Resolving id
[soundcloud] user/track: Downloading info JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, '_ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure'),))
  File "HOME_DIR/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 496, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "HOME_DIR/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2093, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 442, in error
    result = self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 629, in http_error_302
    return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "HOME_DIR/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1083, in https_open
    req, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)

[yan12125]

[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-4.4.0-66-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty

Soundcloud servers require an SSL/TLS feature called Server Name Indication (SNI), which is available since Python 2.7.9. Please upgrade your Python or use Python 3 instead.

[douineauromain]

root@vps:/home/my_project/node_modules/youtube-dl/bin# ./youtube-dl --version
2017.04.17
root@vps:/home/my_project/node_modules/youtube-dl/bin# python --version
Python 3.4.3
root@vps:/home/my_project/node_modules/youtube-dl/bin# ./youtube-dl https://soundcloud.com/liluzivert/15-xo-tour-llif3
[soundcloud] liluzivert/15-xo-tour-llif3: Resolving id
[soundcloud] liluzivert/15-xo-tour-llif3: Downloading info JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, '_ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure'),))

Hello I've last youtube-dl and last python version but I still have this error... What can I do ?

[yan12125]

@douineauromain Try python ./youtube-dl -v https://soundcloud.com/liluzivert/15-xo-tour-llif3

[douineauromain]

@yan12125 Thanks with your method it work ! But what does that mean ? I execute youtube-dl from a node module so I don't know how I can use your method

[yan12125]

Sorry, but you'll have to ask the author of that node module.